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Often appears with: language, naming, and meaning · obscure terms · numerical reckoning · napata and meroë · manuscript variants · history and the writing of history · geography and the description of places · african rivers and settlements
Usually: commentary or gloss (2) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
The section’s notes discuss manuscript and distance corrections, the identity and positions of various African towns and rivers near Napata and Meroë, and provide interpretive comments on specific natural phenomena and plants.
[888] Kramer considers the passage between brackets to be an interpolation, as the same sense is conveyed in the passage which immediately follows. [889] The number here given is nearly twice too great. Kramer quotes G. Parthey (de Philis insula) for correcting the error to 50 stadia, and for perceiving that it arose from the very frequent substitution in manuscripts of the letter P (100) for N (50). [890] Unhewn s…
This passage continues editorial commentary with numerous numerical clarifications and textual uncertainties, but no new continuous Herodotean prose narrative.
has just been given, {os Phoinikes legousi}, and the Syracusans professed to be unable to discover anything of him at all. Most of the Editors omit or alter the words.] 160 [ {epimemphesthe}: some Editors have tried corrections, e.g. {ou ti memnesthe}, "do ye not remember," or {epimemnesthe}, "remember"; but cp. viii. 106, {oste se me mempsasthai ten... diken}.] 161 [ {osa umin... Minos epempse menion dakrumata}. T…